Beef Ban lifted

San Francisco — A U.S. federal appeals court Thursday overturned the ban on imports of Canadian cattle despite a lower court's ruling that renewing the imports could spread mad cow disease in the United States.

RE: Beef Ban lifted

Jul 16th, 2005

This should be a non-event at this point. The US opening its borders to our beef shouldn't matter because we should have learned our lesson...they are not a reliable market and they are a poor trade partner.

There are more than fifty other countries that will buy our beef right now...cut and packaged so that we get the value-added money. If we bring in some basic rules, like testing every animal for BSE, there are even more markets open to us.

The US does not need our beef for domestic consumption. They slaughter and package it and sell it into these very same markets that we are presently ignoring or under-utilizing. It's time to change that. We should be competing internationally with the US instead of supplying them with raw product.

missile

Conservative

#7

RE: Beef Ban lifted

Jul 16th, 2005

As usual,you are right,Rev.

Ten Packs

#8

RE: Beef Ban lifted

Jul 16th, 2005

C.A.L.F. says they are still going to fight it.... four-flushers.

Jo Canadian

#9

Re: Beef Ban lifted

Jul 16th, 2005

Reverend Blair

#10

Re: Beef Ban lifted

Jul 16th, 2005

Quote:

C.A.L.F. says they are still going to fight it.... four-flushers.

They'll likely win, too.

Did I ever tell you that I watched to grown men get into a fist fight over which breed of cow was better, Ten Packs? That was on one of my Plentywood adventures. It was very odd.

Jo Canadian

#11

Re: Beef Ban lifted

Jul 19th, 2005

Ocean Breeze

Free Thinker

#12

Re: Beef Ban lifted

Jul 19th, 2005

Quote: Originally Posted by Jo Canadian

aint that the truth???

Reverend Blair

#13

RE: Beef Ban lifted

Jul 19th, 2005

Yeah, but farmers are really **** about cattle. When we cleaned out my grandfather's AI records we actually phoned everybody to make sure they didn't any of them. A lot of them wanted the records...going back to the late sixties.

Not one of them could have told you the name of the hired hand they had in 1976, but every single one of them could have told you why they bred which cow to what bull.

Ocean Breeze

Free Thinker

#14

Re: RE: Beef Ban lifted

Jul 19th, 2005

Quote: Originally Posted by Reverend Blair

Yeah, but farmers are really **** about cattle. When we cleaned out my grandfather's AI records we actually phoned everybody to make sure they didn't any of them. A lot of them wanted the records...going back to the late sixties.

Not one of them could have told you the name of the hired hand they had in 1976, but every single one of them could have told you why they bred which cow to what bull.